Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Macedonia and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Connie Case to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Arcadia. All the underground hits.
All Terrestrial Tones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flipper record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Reed record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Flipper,
Scientists,
Franke,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Swans,
Dave Gahan,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Anthony Braxton,
UT,
Lungfish,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Boogie Down Productions,
Ronan,
Blossom Toes,
Joyce Sims,
Drexciya,
Eric Copeland,
Gregory Isaacs,
Minor Threat,
The Fall,
Hashim,
Gabor Szabo,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Sparks,
Procol Harum,
Young Marble Giants,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Man Eating Sloth,
Bad Manners,
Lower 48,
Sonic Youth,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Echospace,
Kayak,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Flesh Eaters,
Television Personalities,
The Pop Group,
Curtis Mayfield,
Pere Ubu,
The Searchers,
Suburban Knight,
Pierre Henry,
Avey Tare,
Susan Cadogan,
D'Angelo,
Crash Course in Science,
Y Pants,
Mantronix,
Toni Rubio,
Chris Corsano,
Altered Images,
Spoonie Gee,
Visage,
Neil Young,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Five Americans,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Warren Ellis,
Jesper Dahlback,
Funkadelic,
Bronski Beat,
Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
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You don't know what you really want.
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You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.